Hello, I am with a non profit and trying to salvage old emails from backup files. 1. The old email program is not available any longer. 2. I simply changed the file ext to txt. 3. I can read all the emails. 4. There are a lot of mime files in this text file. 5. I would like to filter out or delete these lines of mime code. 6. I do not have programming experience and this project is not worth learning one. 7. The file is 43000 lines. The only thing I thought of was that these lines of code are not in the dictionary. Could I filter the file with the word dictionary? Thank you for this forum and any directions would help. Tom

Hi TTN,

MIME code can contain text, attachments and images. In fact, most emails are MIME formatted. Simply deleting it isn't necessarily the right way to go. If you provide some details about what the old email program was, and what email program you're now using, it might be possible to provide you with a conversion process that will recover all of the content.

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Thank you for quick reply, I don't know what program created them. This is a sample of the lines I want deleted. In the file it is on continuous string. I just noticed that most lines do not have a space in them. 9vDGhR9J+nHkkf1xVsdMo7GgH3ZdR9OMY9qYq4sMuu4/XjD19fHA02xVf12zHb5ZVd9xT37ZZFR4Yq18t81Nqfhjqg5vox VSZeuISCm9Rght+o28cYwBpt9OKoQgD2GMNOg6eOLyD/bwO1KccVbND88qoAxpObl88VVK749GFNsSrUZan6RiqJB2Hf2p iikYitdj0xQEj6MVVetCKZajv8AfjKmnXHKT16Dx7YqvBzVPsN 9/lldjlT3xVsGmXAAyhsf1Zda7UxVxytu2Y0qB2xpPIGo27YquO4 p9+XXKHSnbwyz0oBiqw0B32x3YfjjT4nL8KdMVWcfn18O2bNU/jTtmxWGkQCdH1If8AL0PxjXOzRKRnHPyCp+idUBoKXKkfTGO30 Z2VQelBtQ4qqA+GV32/zpl0odhtmpvX78VaBPX8Djq9saPc9c1flTFXUpv19sd2Fcobdc vtirh2rl7AfrygK0zGtMVc1a7b5v8AM5suo7fTirq1Azd83yyx 18cVapmGx65Z6dcb

As I said, simply deleting these lines is not the answer. How old is the most recent of these files? What was the original file extension? Have you asked anyone else there what program they used for emails before?

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Some are Juno files with a .frm extention. Others are .mbs extension maybe Thunderbird files. The files are 1997 through 2006.

OK, you can manually convert Thunderbird email files to Outlook Express or Outlook, by following the procedures here:
http://www.ehow.com/how_5879683_conv...k-express.html
http://www.ehow.com/how_8670030_conv...d-outlook.html
The only caveat seems to be that you need to have Firefox (which is what Thunderbird is part of) installed. You can uninstall it again afterwards, of course. There are various companises that market inexpensive conversion utiltities also.

Juno is an email provider, like gmail, rather than an email application. You can configure both Outlook Express and Outlook to work with such providers.

No email propgram I am aware of generates .frm or .mbs files. There other programs that do, though.

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Okay so I do use firefox. All I need is one of the utilities. And for the Juno I need to talk to them. Thank you very much Paul It is my good night here.

OK, so if you're using Firefox, what other email program are you trying to convert the files to?

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I am using Outlook 2003. We use the calendar and contacts also. I don't find very many people that love Outlook but it's files are universally recognized. I searched for that mbs ext and found it is for Opera mail. I found a utility for that with a trial mode. It has a plain text option so I set that and so far it has worked on two of my files so far. So all that is left is translate the juno files. Maybe a utility for that?

24 hrs later I installed three versions of Juno and one version of Opera and three utilities and I have three years of email in Outlook folders! The last folder I have to deal with is huge four year Juno file that is corrupt.

How large is the Juno file? Are you able to open it (eg by changing the extension to .txt and using Word)? If so, does it contain intelligible content?

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Hi, It is 33 mB and it is mostly text file and I can see all the emails. I changed the ext to txt and loaded it in notepad but it is too slow. Next I loaded it into Word and that went well. It shows up at about 9000 pages once it has it indexed. This is the file that I originally asked about. If I can delete the MIME code it would cut the size maybe 70%. From what I could find on the internet this would best be done by programming script like PERL or PYTHON but I only have some memory of using MS BASIC for string manipulations. I have done a little macro recording but I don't see how it would apply. I did use one utility on it to translate it into a Opera mail box and it was some what successful. However it has several actual emails in each email. It did not pick up every email header.

If you can read all the file content in Word, and especially if the first and last lines are not corrupted, then file file itself is probably not corrupt. It's probably just not in the required format for importing into Juno. The fact you could retrieve some content via the utility you refer to suggests as much. Juno might, for example, simply expect the file to be in its saved emails folder, rather than being a file to import.

IIRC, MIME content has a fixed line length (80 or 127 chars?). If that's correct, it may be a simply matter of using Find?Replace in Word to delete all 'paragraphs' of that length. This won't work, though, if the body text of the emails is similarly formatted.

Thing is, I distinctly remember recovering MIME/UUENCODE content from emails in the past, and it wasn't at all difficult. But it was so long ago (~15-20 years) I can't remember the details.

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I think you have found a common denominator. only the MIME code has no spaces and are a fixed width. I have never used the options you described in REPLACE . I found the paragraph option under format, but I don't see where to describe the paragraph for line length. I did find an article talking about replacing by STYLES. I am reading that now.

In Word, using a wildcard Find/Replace, where:
Find = [!^13 ]{75,127}^13
replace = nothing
will delete all lines with 75-127 characters without spaces. Since I don't know your actual MIME code line lengths, you may need adjust the 75 or 127 to expand the range.

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